Did You Read?

The most often “blogged” books last year…
FREAKONOMICS: A ROGUE ECONOMIST EXPLORES THE HIDDEN SIDE OF EVERYTHING By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner (William Morrow, April 2005)

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (BOOK 6) By J. K. Rowling (Arthur A. Levine Books, July 2005)

BLINK: THE POWER OF THINKING WITHOUT THINKING By Malcolm Gladwell (Little, Brown, January 2005) (With a title like that it must be a conservative book.)

THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY By Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2005) (Has to be a conservative book!)

GETTING THINGS DONE: THE ART OF STRESS-FREE PRODUCTIVITY By David Allen (Penguin Books, January 2003)

COLLAPSE: HOW SOCIETIES CHOOSE TO FAIL OR SUCCEED By Jared Diamond (Viking, December 2004)

BLOG: UNDERSTANDING THE INFORMATION REFORMATION THAT'S CHANGING YOUR WORLD By Hugh Hewitt (Nelson Books, January 2005)

THE TIPPING POINT: HOW LITTLE THINGS CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE By Malcolm Gladwell (Back Bay Books, January 2002)

THE DA VINCI CODE By Dan Brown (Doubleday, March 2003) .

STATE OF FEAR By Michael Crichton (HarperCollins, December 2004)

THE WISDOM OF CROWDS: WHY THE MANY ARE SMARTER THAN THE FEW AND HOW COLLECTIVE WISDOM SHAPES BUSINESS, ECONOMIES, SOCIETIES AND NATIONS By James Surowiecki (Doubleday, May 2004) (Since we already know that the majority of college graduates can’t read…why does this book make sense? It doesn’t.)

THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR: WHEN HUMANS TRANSCEND BIOLOGY By Ray Kurzweil (Viking, September 2005)

1984 By George Orwell (Signet) (An old favorite!)

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA By C. S. Lewis (HarperTrophy)

UNHINGED: EXPOSING LIBERALS GONE WILD By Michelle Malkin (Regnery, October 2005) (Must be a conservative book.)

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS?: HOW CONSERVATIVES WON THE HEART OF AMERICA Must be a conservative book.
By Thomas Frank (Metropolitan Books, June 2004)

HELP! MOM! THERE ARE LIBERALS UNDER MY BED By Katharine DeBrecht (Kids Ahead, September 2005) (Must be a conservative book.)

PODCASTING: THE DO IT YOURSELF GUIDE By Todd Cochrane (Wiley, August 2005)

THE FAIRTAX BOOK By Neil Bortz and Jon Lender (Regan, August 2005)